5 sessions from Mon 12 Aug 2024 [Show]
Each day a visiting artist will lead art workshops with the children, supported by our creative playworkers. We cover a wide variety of art and crafts with a focus on learning and most of all FUN! With access to a full range of arts facilities and equipment, and use of our extensive grounds, lawns, gardens and woodland.
Details…
The club is for primary school children aged 5-12 years and will run from 9am – 3.30pm
(drop off from 9am-9.30am, pick up 3.30pm sharp)
The club costs £33 per day, this includes the provision of a wide range of art materials, refreshments and snack.
Children will need to bring their own packed lunch and raincoat/sunscreen.
We hope to get outside into our beautiful grounds to explore as often as possible, so please pack raincoats as well as dressing in suitable clothing and footwear.
The club is for children with a love of art and crafts.
This is a busy and noisy environment with up to 32 children participating daily. Please note that we are not a registered childcare provider, and we do not have additional support beyond our Artists and Creative Playworkers.
We want all our children to get the most from their art club workshops, in a safe and happy environment. If you would like to discuss accessibility, please give us a call.
This ticket is for people who are on benefits such as Income based Council Tax or are unemployed or unable to work and worry about meeting their and their family's basic needs. There is a limited number of these tickets.
There are a maximum of 4 free places available to be shared amongst families low income families. Please select one session per week, per child.
These few places are much needed, please be considerate when booking so that other families can also benefit from the sessions.
Universal Credit - Please note, our Universal credit ticket no longer exists. As Universal Credit has recently restructured, our free ticket criteria has been updated to make sure that these are reaching the families who cannot afford them otherwise.
'Making Space' is a series of workshops led by artist Rosie Roberts for Forgan Art Centre’s Children’s Art Club. Rosie is an artist, writer and editor based in Glasgow. Her practice expands through interdisciplinary art forms often in collaboration with others. These workshops utilise making and creativity to explore connections between the imagery of speculative science fiction and fact.
Monday
What We See in the Stars: Combining art, mythology, and science, What We See in the Stars is a workshop based on Kelsey Oseid’s children’s book of the same name. The day will be a tour of the night sky through making and art, we will discover the myths, histories, and science of the celestial bodies of our solar system and beyond, weaving stories and information into our work.
Tuesday
Images from Light: Combining photo sensitive methods Images from Light is a workshop where we will look at different ways artworks can be made, recorded, and printed using the light of the sun. We will experiment making simple cameras using paper, holes, boxes and light sensitive paper, drawing from shadows and using cyanotype methods. A pinhole camera works because light from our nearest star - the Sun - enters the pinhole and then it is projected out of the other side, how can imagining the impact of this light inspire us?
Wednesday
Lunisolar Time: Inspired by 'The Wheel of the Year' - a version of the Gaelic calendar based on festivals that celebrated our connection with nature - Lunisolar Time is a workshop looking at how people marked the passage of time with the celestial bodies, through making moon and sun lanterns and calendars. The lunisolar calendar features in many cultures, incorporating phases of the sun and moon and their positions as we see them from here on Earth.
Thursday
The Asteroid Junkyard is a workshop where we will utilise sculpture and action painting to explore the connections between the imagery and forms of smaller space objects in the solar system. We will make our own asteroids and comets and experiment with mark making and group movement. A day playing with texture, scale, and lots of mixed materials
Friday
Alien Ecologies: is a workshop where we will utilise art to explore the imagery of cosmic speculative science fiction. Encouraging imagination and innovation to try on new ways of understanding ourselves and the world around us, we will begin to create alien puppet lifeforms. We will be thinking about exo-planet weather, ruby rain, golden mist or a planet with nothing except rainbows in the sky. Imagining alien ecologies, creating new flora and fauna, drawing from the gardens and collaging together.
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